From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 27 11:36:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26268 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26263 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA68861; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:35:33 +0100 (CET) To: Matt White cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPTP and FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:26:49 EST." <4235743047.914768809@FRAUGHT.NET.CMU.EDU> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:35:33 +0100 Message-ID: <68859.914787333@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Since we don't consider our local wire to be secure in any way shape or >form, we encrypt all sensitive traffic in the application. IMO, this is >the only sane way to do things. We used to have a war-chant we used against the OSI people, it went something like: "Anything but end-to-end ACKs is a waste of time" I pressume that it would be equally valid if you did a: s/ACKs/encryption/ -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message